Libros UCLV { BETA }

Ciclos con Turbinas de Gas

This book describes the thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles (although it does touch briefly on the economics of electrical power generation). The strictures of classical thermodynamics require that “cycle” is used only for a heat engine operating in closed form, but the word has come to cover “open circuit” gas turbine plants, receiving “heat” supplied through burning fuel, and eventually discharging the products to the atmosphere (including crucially the carbon dioxide produced in combustion). The search for high gas turbine efficiency has produced many suggestions for variations on the simple “open circuit” plant suggested by Barber, but more recently work has been directed towards gas turbines which produce less COz, or at least plants from which the carbon dioxide can be disposed of, subsequent to sequestration.